Try reading the gibberish of a legal writ. They are so called professional wordsmiths. Yet no one but a person with a Judicial degree can understand what they are saying. They love words especially ones very seldom if even used even in the history of the nation. Look at out founding documents. Anyone can read them and have a general understanding. Petition a court today and try to understand what the writ says. Good Luck.
Many, if not most persons who built this nation in 1700-early 1900's in fact had poor grammar and penmanship. We survived as a nation. Loved ones who for example saw the last words of a coal miner written in his final hours trapped under ground did not care if poppa spelled correctly. The minority of Americans had the grammar and penmanship skills of today even with errors. Of all the problems and issues we face this is amongst the bottom of the barrel of things destroying our nation.
I'd rather hear the words of a farmers opinion errors and all and certainly know and understand what he is saying than someone who writes in levels so advanced no one understand or would likely even care what they are saying.
Today's grammar by the way is not the grammar the persons that first came to our shores used. That died out in the 1600's. Customs change and so do languages. Even languages based in Latin have a huge variant region to region.
Excellent points. I learned long ago, as a teaching assistant in the English Dep’t at The Univ of Connecticut, that some of my students with the worst writing skills were on their way to becoming very successful business owners.
In the early 1980’s I had a student who couldn’t write a paragraph without a couple of dozen spelling errors and virtually zero punctuation, but he had recently negotiated the sale of a registered Holstein for $225,000. I was living in a cockroach infested apartment for married students at the time making $200/mo and eating rice and beans. I figured out pretty quick that knowing the difference between “”your” and “you’re” wasn’t my ticket to living a life of prosperity....
I have seen this used by Social Workers and Grievance Studies types and it comes off like the Bowery Boys. Simple concepts expressed in other than simple language for any reason other than to provide clarity in meaning are mere obfustications.
Good lawyers write in as much plain English as possible.
I will not hire lawyers who use too much “legalese” where not necessary.